Last week was dominated by news of the first government shutdown in seventeen years. But at Sunlight it also marked a different, more cheerful milestone. Last week, Sunlight’s APIs served their billionth request!

We don’t know! But all of these uses–and all the ones we can’t imagine–are thrilling to us, and we’re very grateful to the thousands of you who have signed up for a Sunlight API key and joined us in using technology to make our government more accessible, accountable and transparent.